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Nanocatalysts to boost future ultra supersonic jets

Vineet Chauhan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:06:12 +0000

Princeton engineers leading a team of scientists, are developing a fuel additive made up of nanocatalysts that will help future jets fly faster and make diesel engines more efficient. This project is being granted $3 million, which comes from the...

Desquamated stickers serve as hint to stretchable electronics

Atul — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:41:00 +0000

Imagine a day when you could twist your phone into a loop and pocket it without damage! Sounds crazy, right? Well, the day wouldn’t be that far away, for researchers (including a team from MIT) have got the right hints to make that stretch...

Large-area graphene on copper promises faster computing, electronics

Bharat — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:24:07 +0000

The pacing development in graphene is ever so steadily taking us into a future of faster and better electronics, perhaps not feasible with silicon. Graphene has been induced as a replacement for silicon in microchips already, and with scientists...

Graphene may replace silicon in microchip manufacturing

Jaiyant Cavale — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:42:08 +0000

Graphene, the tough material that can stand even a diamond cutter may soon be used in manufacturing microchips. Graphene may soon replace silicon and help manufacture mega batteries. Thanks to the engineers at the University of Texas, electric...

Eco Discovery: Graphene doubles renewable energy storage!

Nithya N — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:06:18 +0000

EcoFactor: Solves reusable energy storage woes. The recent nanotech discovery by a bunch of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin could be a breakthrough in the use of a carbon structure one atom thick, which could pave the way...

Transistors go atom-sized

Jayaprashanth — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:15:18 +0000

In yet another innovation that could further Moore’s law and make it much more relevant, even in the future, we now have a transistor created by British scientists that rivals an atom in size. The transistor which has dimensions of 1 atom in...

A fine layer of Graphene could produce more efficient solar cells

Sameer Kumar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:55:38 +0000

Catenation is the self-linking capacity of Carbon that allows it to form endless chains of molecules and atoms. It is this magical property that has given the world some of the most useful and amazing products in a long, long time. Everything that...

Carbon based electronics 10 times faster than silicon possible

Sameer Kumar — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:03:38 +0000

We all are already well aware of the value of ‘Carbon’ as a building block of life itself. We owe our very existence to carbon and its miraculous property of linking itself up to form an unending chain; a property that is referred to as...

World's smallest transistor made by shattering the Silicon barrier

Naveen — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:56:46 +0000

The researchers at the University of Manchester have successfully cracked the biggest stumbling block in semiconductor miniaturization. By breaking the silicon barrier by using the world’s thinnest material Graphene, they have developed the...